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Medicine

Career planning is key for medical graduates

Changes in postgraduate medical education have made it even more important for graduates to start early in the career planning process. With less opportunity to change direction once decisions are made, starting to plan for your future career now will improve your chances of finding the job that's just right for you.

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A quick intro to Foundation Programmes Expert advice on medical interviews

Overseas electives and working abroad Switch to medicine: graduate medical degrees

Areas of work

Graduate profiles

• Anaesthesia
• Audiovestibular medicine/audiological medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Histopathology
• Medicine
• Obstetrics and gynaecology
• Paediatrics
• Pathology
• Plastic and reconstructive surgery
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation medicine
• Rheumatology
• Surgery

• Alison Gibb (MRCGP MFFP) (General practitioner)
• Andy Morris (MBBS MRCP FRCA) (Lead clinician for intensive care and consultant anaesthetist)
• Captain Hugo Guthrie (Medical officer, armed forces)
• Carol Brignall (FRCSEd) (Consultant orthopaedic surgeon)
• Dawn Sellars (MBBS graduate entry programme student)
• Dr Catherine Kinane (MRCGP MICGP MRCPsych) (Consultant forensic psychiatrist and clinical director.)
• Dr Damon Kamming (FRCA) (Clinical director of day surgery and consultant anaesthetist)
• Dr Margaret Phillips (MD MRCP) (Honorary consultant and clinical associate professor in rehabilitation medicine.)
• Dr Martin Schmidt (Specialist registrar – general adult psychiatry.)
• Dr Mohsin Malik (FRCPCH) (Consultant paediatrician and honorary paediatric gastroenterologist.)
• Dr Simon Dando (MRCP MFPM) (Associate director, European medical affairs.)
• Dr Vinod Diwakar (MRCP MRCPCH) (Consultant paediatrician.)
• Duncan Gordon (General duties medical officer.)
• Edward Hyde (Foundation 1, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.)
• Esme Porter (MBChB) (Specialist registrar - histopathology.)
• Graham Ross (MRCOG) (Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist.)
• James Powles (BSc (Hons) FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Oto) FRCS (ORL-HNS)) (Specialist registrar - ear, nose and throat (ENT))
• Jo Beahan (MRCP) (Specialist registrar - emergency medicine.)
• Katrina Erskine (MRCP, MRCOG, MD) (Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist.)
• Ken Stewart (MD, FRCS Ed (Plast), consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon)
• Mike Biggs (specialist registrar histopathology)
• Mike Cheshire (FRCP, DCH) (Consultant physician in general medicine and geriatrician.)
• Mohan Kumar (MRCGP, PG DIP GP) (GP principal, GP trainer, course organiser.)
• Nidhi Sofat (MRCP) (Specialist registrar in rheumatology and Wellcome Trust Research training fellow.)
• Paul Glynne (MRCP, PhD) (Consultant physician and intensivist.)
• Priya Agrawal (Doctor - senior house officer obstetrics and gynaecology.)
• Rob Baker (Foundation 2, George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton and Hospital of St Cross, Rugby.)
• Sebastian Hendricks (Consultant audiological physician and lead for paediatric audiological services.)
• Simon Carley (MD, FRCS (ed), FCEM) (Consultant in emergency medicine.)

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